Just what we ordered.

Just what we ordered.

What if you could order food from your favourite restaurant and have it delivered by bike to your front door at home, your office or even your picnic spot without any loss of flavour? Well, you can. The delivery service foodora has made exactly that possible. In recent years, a new restaurant culture has evolved, especially in big cities. Thanks to globalization and mobility we can get a taste of world cuisines within a stone’s throw from practically anywhere. A growing consciousness for healthy food forms and an increased sensitivity concerning the quality of raw materials and ingredients have brought a wide range of healthy and high-quality culinary offers. Finally! But what if an evening at the restaurant, just won’t fit in your busy schedule? What if there’s no time to cook (or you simply just can’t hack it) at home? To tell the truth, our stressful every day lives don’t really contribute to a healthy lifestyle. So what are our choices when most high-quality restaurants don’t offer delivery because it just doesn’t pay, and all the other’s places that do, would rather make make go hungry instead? foodora has made it their mission to solve this problem and have found a way to do just that: deliver food from restaurants that don’t deliver. A special algorithm is applied to identify the optimal route and driver for each order and to ensure the food arrives in good quality and within an average of less than 30 minutes. The restaurants are pleased about a growing number of orders, the customer is happy about good and reliably delivered food and the bike couriers get a decent pay and work under fair terms of employment – three birds, one stone. foodora is currently working with more than 650 restaurants in nine countries and 15 cities, six of them in Germany. In Berlin there’s already a 100 restaurants cooperating with foodora such as Yumcha Heroes, Bun Bao, Daluma, the Mädchenitaliener or Von und zu Tisch. At the moment, the main delivery areas are Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Charlottenberg. But foodora’s aim is to cover the whole city and they’re working really hard to make that happen ASAP. We love the idea and wish them the best of luck!
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foodora premium delivery service |foodora.de | itunes  | Google Play Store

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Kategorien: Products | Autor: | Datum: 11. September 2015 | Tags: , , , , , Keine Kommentare

That’s Amore

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That’s Amore

The secret of a verace pizza napoletana artigianale – a genuine Neapolitan style pizza – lies in its ingredients: First there is the dough. It must be thin, handled with care and given plenty of time to rest, to then be baked to absolute perfection at the highest possible temperature in the shortest possible time. Secondly: a few, yet excellent and perfectly matched toppings. Creating pizza is like mixing cocktails – harmony and balance are the key. Third: the oven. An authentic wood fired oven is essential. And last but not least: L.O.V.E. Florian Schramm is definitely in on the secret. His pizza joint STANDARD in Prenzlauer Berg has set a new standard in Berlin for the forbidden food of the gods. Authentic quality, good ingredients mixed with regional specialities, a dash of charm and a pinch of flaming Napoli – the pizzaiolo is from Naples and learned his craft at the Associazione Verace Pizza napoletana, the world’s leading pizza academy. Each creation is spectacular, aromatic, crispy, baked for a mere 60 seconds at 500 degrees and covered with delicious sun-ripened and hand-crushed San Marzano tomatoes, Fior di Latte or wild boar salsiccia. People, this is seriously good pizza. And that is why we’re coming here for the next muxmäuschenwild FAMILY STYLE event. We want to eat and drink our way through the menu with you, have a good time and enjoy the Italian way of life. Book your place at our table —25 bucks and you’re good to go. Send an email to familystyle@muxmaeuschenwild.de. Buon appetito!

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Standard Serious Pizza | Templiner Straße 7, 10119 Berlin |  Tue-Fri 5-12pm, Sat-Sun 1-12pm | standard-berlin.de

 

Kategorien: Places | Autor: | Datum: 12. August 2015 | Tags: , , , Keine Kommentare

Fo‘ schnizzle

Fo‘ schnizzle!

Schnitzel is the new burger. Say whaaat?! Yup. After trying out the Schnitzelbude in Mitte, there is really no other way to put it. That Schnitzel was pretty damn good. David Wiedemann, born and raised in Berlin, has already proven more than once that he has a knack for trendy gastronomy concepts: Reingold, Barroom and the deli Stulle mit Brot are all his creations. His latest coup is the wood panelled joint on Oranienburger Str. serving an outstanding Viennese Schnitzel. The menu also features a turkey schnitzel, a kids and veggie version (oyster mushrooms with mountain cheese – amen!), yummy sides and a good selection of beers and softdrinks – the credo here being quality rather than quantity. The Schnitzelbude is opened Tuesday–Sunday from 6.pm till 3am and, believe it or not, it has come to stay! Nuff said. So, if you’re already licking your lips, send an email titled „BRRREADCRRRUMBS“ to hurra@muxmaeuschenwild.de – we’re giving away a meal for two. Dig in!

 

Schnitzelbude | Oranienburger Str. 46, 10117 Berlin (opposite Tacheles) | Tue–Sun, 6pm–3(!)am | www.schnitzel-bude.de | Facebook

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Kategorien: Places | Autor: | Datum: 29. Juli 2015 | Tags: , , , , Keine Kommentare

Arne & Claudia

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Arne & Claudia

The 2 Minute Interview

Together with her partner Arne, Claudia Hirschberger runs the food and photography blog Food with a View. Last year, they even won two awards because they are so good at it. Arne is a vegan and Claudia is a vegetarian (a mixed double so to speak). That makes cooking pretty easy, but can be a bit challenging when baking. Photographs and food. AND photographs of food. We like! By the way: recently the two popped over to Thomas at Leogant. Rumor has it, they’re planning something to do with water and recipes… We’ll keep you posted! Here’s what else we found out about them.

 

Name: Arne Schmidt / Claudia Hirschberger
Age: 50 / 45
City: Berlin Mitte
Job: Freelancer
Shoe size: 44,5 / 42
Favourite restaurant: Mogg & Melzer | Osmans Schwestern, Herr Rossi…
Contact: foodviewberlin.com

What was the last thing you ate?
A: Homemade Bircher muesli with vanilla and fresh berries for breakfast.
C: Muesli. We hardly ever eat it, but today we felt like it. Usually I have a green smoothie first thing in the morning. That really wakes me up.

 

Do you have an idol?
A: You can learn a lot from other people. But they don’t necessarily need to be idols; people are so diverse and have different features.
C: A culinary idol? No, but other people are very inspiring. Friends, family, authors of cookbooks and other bloggers, of course.

 

Who is your favourite photographer and why?
A: Most recently Sebastião Salgado, whose work is currently on show at C/O Berlin, impressed me.
C: Ansel Adams was the first photographer I really took notice of. When I was sixteen, I saw some of his landscape portraits at an exhibition in London. They were electrifying, especially those of Yosemite Park.

 

Sweet or savoury?
A: I like both and in combination together. Especially sweet fruit like dates in spicy oriental dishes.
C: I like the combination of the two as well – we often cook like that. If I had to choose between the two, I probably couldn’t. One of everything, please! ;-).

 

What does your place look like?
A: Classic, minimalistic and rather bright. I keep my original vintage racing bike in the apartment. It’s a nice eye catcher next to the sofa.
C: A little bit of inherited mid-century furniture, a few design classics and some Ikea. My large linoleum table is definitely my favourite piece of furniture, because it seats so many people. And I love flower bouquets, those with lots of little tiny blossoms and grasses.

 

You can’t sleep at night and go to the fridge. What do you fancy?
A: I don’t take anything from the fridge; instead I take a banana from the fruit bowl. I love bananas!
C: A glass of water and a date. And if it’s really bad, I’ll have some warm milk and honey. That always helps.

 

What can’t you live without?
A: Definitely coffee. I don’t have to drink it all day, but I cannot replace it with a smoothie like Claudia. And before bedtime, coffee actually makes me sleepy. A phenomenon.
C: Not a single Sunday goes by without eating cake.

Something you’re really not good at?
A: I can’t peel potatoes. I just end up peeling them to death. I’m absolutely useless.
C: Ball games of all kind.

 

The best thing you’ve ever had to eat…
A: …might have been the berry compote my grandmother used to make. I wish I could have it again.
C: …were Rösti with a fried egg after a hike in the mountains that had lasted much longer than planned – with a lot less food supplies than necessary. The simple and traditional food at the mountain hut afterwards was great.

 

If you could change the world overnight, where would you start?
A: Making good food even more popular. With all the buzz about this topic, it’s still obvious that lots of people don’t know how to prepare simple and good meals and aren’t aware what effect it might have on their health.
C: Since I’ve just been dealing with the subject: provide clean drinking water for all human beings.

 

With which famous person would you like to have coffee?
A: Klaus Kinski.
C: René Redzipi, one of the founders of New Nordic Cuisine.

 

What would you cook for us if we visited you at home?
A: If we’re both cooking, something without any animal products. It’s fun creating meals that don’t immediately appear to be vegan. Definitely no tofu-schnitzel or anything like that.
C: On a hot summer’s day: green pea gazpacho with lavender and a raspberry sorbet in a walnut cornet.

 

What are you afraid of?
A: I’m not a particularly anxious person. But I’m afraid of the same things most people are afraid of: war, poverty, and diseases. Things like that.
C: I’m afraid of spiders and getting caught in a thunderstorm. And that we might never make the perfect vegan sponge mixture ;-).

 

What should no one know about you?
A: Sometimes I dream about Swiss cheese. It’s my dark side…
C: Store-bought pizza, once a year.

 

Which question should we have asked?
A: How do a vegan and a vegetarian live and cook together?
C: What is your favourite recipe and photograph at the moment?

 

Last Words:
C: …I’ll leave those to Arne.
A: Oh, how nice.

 

Kategorien: People | Autor: | Datum: 29. Juli 2015 | Tags: , , , , , Keine Kommentare

Something phishy

Something phishy

This place in Karolinenviertel is posh, very posh. Food is served on Thursdays only and one dish only. But this is then prepared by none other than the people behind „Salt & Silver“, a cookbook combining breath-taking travel reports and mouth-watering recipes collected during a trip through South and Latin America. And at Kleines Phi is where the story continues, where real people are doing real things and putting their heart and soul into it. You can feel it and you can taste it. Be it at the Thursday nosh-ups or in form of delicious South American cocktail classics. We really had a great time and enjoyed our exchange of expertise with the lovely barman. Our new mantra: Thank God it’s Thursday!

 

Kleines Phi | Feldstr. 42, 20357 Hamburg | Tue-Sat, 7pm-3am (Thu from 5pm) | Facebook | Eventlink

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Kategorien: Hamburg | Autor: | Datum: 29. Juli 2015 | Tags: , , , , Keine Kommentare

Shhhhhh, it’s a secret!

Shhhhhh, it’s a secret!

 

So, what’s the deal with all these symbols popping up all over lately? Little alien-like trees – actually kind of unsettling but just as promising – either glued, sprayed or hanging in numerous hip and feel-good places. The good news is: we know what it’s all about AND we are going to tell you. (It’s been a well kept secret up until now, but we just can’t help ourselves – it’s too good!) From August 14th–16th, the very first Secrets Festival will take place somewhere secret (duh!) just outside Berlin. It’s going to be unlike anything and better than everything else so far. Surrounded by water, meadows, a beach, woods, hills and clearings, the makers of the festival are creating a parallel universe full of music, art, fashion and design, food, sports and workshops, tipis and houseboats, with cocoons hanging from trees, sculptures, light installations, visuals and performances. For three days, German bands and international singer/songwriters will be playing a mixture of pop, synthpop, indie, jazz-rock-fusion, jazz-funk, neo soul and Britpop. They’ll be performing on wonderfully decorated and converted stages sponsored by partners such as TV NOIR, Neue Heimat, Hackmode and Suol. Minimal electro, electro funk, easy listening, hip-hop and house will be sounding from the decks and there’ll be tons of live performances from chamber orchestras, street musicians or ambience & world music acts, all of them hiding in the midst of the forest while sound and nature intertwine. Among others, Roosevelt, Leslie Clio and The Acid are on board. Headlining acts are … umm, still a secret of course. (You get the theme here?) Ben Bommer (Parker Bowles, Neue Heimat) put together the food concept and also got Schneeweiß to set up a stall with their delicious food. Sip on dapper drinks from the BOOZE BAR (this year’s Mixology Bar Awards winner), dance the night away and then get centred again with some morning yoga and massages. The Secrets Festival wants you to enjoy yourself: let it linger, join the fun, crank it up or just wind down – whatever makes you happy. This idea is so in sync with the spirit of our times you ask yourself why anybody hasn’t thought of this before. So, say goodbye to passed out drunks, yucky smells and shower-time outs. Hello nature, family camping, outdoor art gallery and pop-up dinner on the riverbank! If Utopia existed, this is probably what it would look like. Catch the virtual vibe on www.secrets-festival.com (access code: S8MPSK7Z) and pre-order your ticket. Official sales start soon. We’ll see you in the clearing, where – to the rhythm of the music – the sun glistens through the treetops just to put a smile on our faces.
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Secrets Festival | 14.­–16.08.2015 | secret location (geographic coordinates: water, meadows, beach, forest, hills) | secrets-festival.com | Facebook

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Kategorien: Places | Autor: | Datum: 06. Mai 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , Keine Kommentare

Good things come to those who eat

Good things come to those who eat

Let’s face it folks, the gastronomic delights around the Simon-Dach-Straße and Sonntagstraße are rather scarce – the Schwarze Hahn, good old Schneeweiß and vegan deli Laauma being superb exceptions, of course. But mostly it’s a blur of Berlin „fusion food” along the lines of simple burger and pizza joints and Happy-Hour-Texmex-Thai restaurants with ever changing management. We were in the area the other day – we were starving and made a great discovery. About a year ago, a new restaurant opened right next to the Ostkreuz train station, across from Hähnchen Hütte and the 1stFloor hostel. With its wooden panelling, handwritten menu boards and earthy Scandinavian chic it was nothing like any of the other places close-by. When we entered Milja & Schäfa, we had absolutely no expectations – a perfect start to the culinary surprise of the week. We took our time reading the menu over and over because everything just sounded so delicious and rather special. We went for beetroot, parsnip and sweet potato wedges with a lime-basil-garlic dip, a beetroot Carpaccio with smoked salmon and five different dips with lovely fresh bread – each one better than the next. All dishes were perfectly balanced, boldly flavoured and anything but random. Our current breakfast favourite is the avocado sandwich with tomato, lemon-basil-aioli, pine nuts and a fried egg. Pictured here to your right. There’s no doubt about it: Milja & Schäfa know what they’re doing. A relaxed, down to earth atmosphere and signature food – that’s just how we like it. Oh, and everybody is really nice! We’ll be back again soon.
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Milja & Schäfa, Café und Soul Food Restaurant | Sonntagstr. 1, 10245 Berlin | Facebook

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Kategorien: Places | Autor: | Datum: 22. April 2015 | Tags: , , , , Keine Kommentare